In Her Mother's House The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing

Name: In Her Mother's House The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing
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ISBN: 9780742503366

ISBN-10: 0742503364

ISBN-13: 9780742503366

Edition: 1999

Authors: Wendy Ho, Maxine Hong Kingston

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Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her China-born grandmother and her U.S.-born mother and her own readings of other Asian American women writers. She finds in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Fae Myenne Ng not only complex mother-daughter relationships but many-faceted relationships to fathers, family, community, and culture. Always resisting the simplistic explanations, In Her Mother's House brings Asian American…

Book details

List price: $126.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 1/19/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.20" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078



Acknowledgments



Beneath the Pirie Mango Tree: The Self Talking-Story about Mothers and Daughters



Feminist Recovery and Reception: Chinese American Mother-Daughter Stories



The Traffic in Women: Migration and Representation



Outlaw Brotherhood: Cultural Nationalism and the Politics of Mother-Daughter Discourses



Desire in the Desert: The Self Talking-Story in Maxine Hong Kingston's Mother-Daughter Stories



Losing Your Innocence But Not Your Hope: Amy Tan's Joy Luck Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters



The Heart Never Travels: Fathers in the Mother-Daughter Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Fae Myenne Ng



Coda: The Political Heart of the Matter


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